Swans – Cop/Young God, Greed/Holy Money (Thirsty Ear) 1999
I’ve noticed that I’ve been concentrating on records I really like. Here’s one I don’t.
For your asistance here are some words to describe this record:
| Main Entry: | flatulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, inflated, long-winded, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | timid |
| Source: | Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1) Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. |
Here’s another:
turd
–noun Slang: Vulgar.
| 1. | a piece of excrement. |
| 2. | a mean, contemptible person. |
And another:
| bleak | |
| adjective | |
| 1. | offering little or no hope; “the future looked black”; “prospects were bleak”; “Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult”- J.M.Synge; “took a dim view of things” [syn: black] |
| 2. | providing no shelter or sustenance; “bare rocky hills”; “barren lands”; “the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes”; “the desolate surface of the moon”; “a stark landscape” [syn: bare] |
| 3. | unpleasantly cold and damp; “bleak winds of the North Atlantic” |
Bleak? I do bleak. I don’t do pompous overblown crap like this though. The Swans produced some great albums (anyone want to sell me a copy of White Light from the Mouth of Infinity) and I suppose curiosity and Michael Gira’s involvement with Akron/Family got the better of me. This record is the first three Swans albums along with an EP. It charts their output from 1984-1986. I’ve tried to like it, I really have, but it’s time to call this what it is. I know I’m not cool but this is a turgid, bleak turd of a record.
Ducks Battle Satan 
April 5, 2008 at 5:49 pm
unbelievable…one of the greatest bands ever…
July 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I always thought Cop was pretty monotonous. Young God is more interesting (and shorter, which also helps). Not sure about Greed/Holy Money.
Do you have Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job? I don’t, but I do love the two Filth-era songs I have (on a compilation of live performances at the Kitchen).